To protect the creativity of the people making things by giving them:
Credit for their work
Money for their work
Plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Copying directly from someone else’s work
Not giving credit to the person who created the work
Why is it wrong?
You are taking credit for someone else’s ideas and creativity
You might be taking part of their profits
You are stealing their ideas
So what?
There are many punishments for people who steal other’s work
Failing an assignment or a class
Suspension or expulsion
Fines
How do you avoid plagiarism?
Of course, DON’T COPY DIRECTLY FROM A SOURCE
Give credit ANY time you get information from a source that you will
be using, even if it is in your own words – “cite” the source
Book
Author’s name. Title. Publication place: Publisher, date of publication.
Example: Langan, Paul. The Bully. New Jersey: Townsend Press, 2002.
Encyclopedia Articles
Author’s name (if given). “Title of article.” Title of Encyclopedia. Date of publication, ed.
Example: Simon, Seymour. “Plants.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1994, ed.
Websites
Author’s name (if any is given). “Title of article or document.” Information supplier (if given). Date you visited the webpage. <URL>
Example: Audubon, John. “Endangered U.S. Listed Birds.” National Wildlife Federation. 14 March 1998. www.nwf.org/nwf/endangered/listing/birds1.html
Copyright
What is it?
A way to protect original, creative workWhat kinds of things can be copyright protected?
Music
Writing
Artwork
Speeches
Websites
Movies
TV shows
Music videos
Photographs
Why do we have copyright?
To protect the creativity of the people making things by giving them:Plagiarism
What is plagiarism?
Copying directly from someone else’s work
Not giving credit to the person who created the work
Why is it wrong?
You are taking credit for someone else’s ideas and creativity
You might be taking part of their profits
You are stealing their ideas
So what?
There are many punishments for people who steal other’s workFailing an assignment or a class
Suspension or expulsion
Fines
How do you avoid plagiarism?
Book
Author’s name. Title. Publication place: Publisher, date of publication.Example: Langan, Paul. The Bully. New Jersey: Townsend Press, 2002.
Encyclopedia Articles
Author’s name (if given). “Title of article.” Title of Encyclopedia. Date of publication, ed.Example: Simon, Seymour. “Plants.” World Book Encyclopedia. 1994, ed.
Websites
Author’s name (if any is given). “Title of article or document.” Information supplier (if given).Date you visited the webpage. <URL>
Example: Audubon, John. “Endangered U.S. Listed Birds.” National Wildlife Federation. 14 March 1998.
www.nwf.org/nwf/endangered/listing/birds1.html
Adapted from Ashby, Jennifer "Whale Watching in Lake Michigian", 4 August 2010
http://www.vema.gen.va.us/conference/07handouts/Handouts2007/Ashby%20Whale.pdf